[1805] - Hazlitt publishes his first book, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action
Useful Links and Further Reading
- Internet Archive, ‘William Hazlitt, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (1805)’,
http://www.archive.org/details/anessayonprinci00hazlgoog
- Jack Barbalet, ‘Disinterestedness and Self Formation: Principles of Action in William Hazlitt’, European Journal of Social Theory,
http://www.jackbarbalet.com/uploads/Disinterestedness_and_self_formation.pdf
- John Barresi and Raymond Martin, ‘Self-Concern from Priestley to Hazlitt’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 11.3 (2003), 499–507,
http://idol.union.edu/martinr/documents/rm-rrcooperfeb02rev02.pdf
- Elisabeth W. Schneider, The Aesthetics of William Hazlitt: A Study of the Philosophical Basis of his Criticism (Philadelphia, PA, 1933)
- James Noxon, ‘Hazlitt as Moral Philosopher’, Ethics, 73.4 (1963), 279–83
- Roy E. Cain, ‘David Hume and Adam Smith as Sources of the Concept of Sympathy in Hazlitt’, Papers on English Language and Literature, 1.2 (1965), 133–40
- Kathleen Coburn, ‘Hazlitt on the Disinterested Imagination’, in Some British Romantics: A Collection of Essays, ed. Northrop Frye (Columbus, OH, 1966), 168–88
- J. D. O’Hara, ‘Hazlitt and the Functions of the Imagination’, PMLA, 81 (1966), 552–62
- Donald M. Hassler, ‘The Discovery of the Future and Indeterminacy in Hazlitt’, The Wordsworth Circle, 8.1 (1977), 75–9
- Raymond Martin and John Barresi, ‘Hazlitt on the Future of the Self’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 56.3 (1995), 463–81
- Uttara Natarajan, Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense: Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of Power (Oxford, 1998)
- A. C. Grayling, The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William Hazlitt (London, 2000), 362–5
- Tim Milnes, Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (Cambridge, 2003)
- Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu, eds, Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays (Abingdon, 2005)